{"id":16316,"date":"2015-11-29T09:05:39","date_gmt":"2015-11-29T17:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/today-in-sports-history-nov-29\/"},"modified":"2015-11-29T09:05:39","modified_gmt":"2015-11-29T17:05:39","slug":"today-in-sports-history-nov-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/today-in-sports-history-nov-29\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in Sports History: Nov. 29"},"content":{"rendered":"

1890 \u2014 Navy beats Army 24-0 in the first matchup of this historic series.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1934 \u2014 The Detroit Lions play their first Thanksgiving Day home game and lose to the Chicago Bears 19-16.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1987 \u2014 The New Orleans Saints hold off the Pittsburgh Steelers 20-16 to assure their first winning season in their 20-year history.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1987 \u2014 The Edmonton Eskimos defeat the Toronto Argonauts 38-36 to win the 75th CFL Grey Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1992 \u2014 New York Jets defensive end Dennis Byrd is paralyzed in his lower body after colliding with teammate Scott Mersereau during a 23-7 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1995 \u2014 Grant Fuhr becomes the 11th NHL goalie to win 300 games as the St. Louis Blues beat Winnipeg 4-1.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1998 \u2014 Miami\u2019s Dan Marino becomes the first player to throw 400 career TD passes, passing for 255 yards and three TDs in the Dolphins\u2019 30-10 win against New Orleans.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2003 \u2014 LeBron James, 18, becomes youngest NBA player to score 30 or more points in a game with his 33-point effort in the Cavaliers\u2019 122-115 double-overtime loss to Memphis. Kobe Bryant was 19 when he reached 30 for the Lakers in 1997.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2003 \u2014 Maryland\u2019s Bruce Perry rushes for 237 yards while Wake Forest\u2019s Chris Barclay gains 243 yards, marking the first time in ACC history and only the fifth time in NCAA history that opposing backs have more than 200 rushing yards in the same game. Perry scores three touchdowns in the Terrapins\u2019 41-28 win.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2004 \u2014 Brett Favre celebrates his 200th straight regular-season start with three touchdown passes and yet another record in the Green Bay Packers\u2019 45-17 rout of the St. Louis Rams. Favre tops 20 touchdown passes for the 11th straight season, breaking a tie with Dan Marino.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2008 \u2014 Chris Duhon passes out a franchise-record 22 assists in New York\u2019s 138-125 victory over Golden State. Duhon breaks Richie Guerin\u2019s team record of 21 assists set in 1958. New York scores 82 points in the first half to break the record for most first-half points at the present Madison Square Garden, set when Kansas City scored 81 on Dec. 8, 1979.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2009 \u2014 Francesco and Edoardo Molinari become the first brothers to win the World Cup of Golf, giving Italy its first title in the team event with a one-stroke victory over Sweden and Ireland.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2009 \u2014 The Indianapolis Colts earn their 20th straight regular-season victory with a 35-27 win over Houston. The Colts came back from fourth-quarter deficits in each of their past five games to become the first NFL team to win five in a row when trailing in the fourth quarter of each contest.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2009 \u2014 A few hours after firing coach Lawrence Frank, the Nets match the worst start to an NBA season. New Jersey loses its 17th straight game, 106-87 to the Los Angeles Lakers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2012 \u2014 Drew Brees throws a career-high five interceptions and his record touchdown streak of 54 consecutive games ends in New Orleans\u2019 23-13 loss to Atlanta. Brees completed 28 of 50 passes for 341 yards.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2013 \u2014 David Fales throws for 543 yards and six touchdowns in an entertaining showdown with Derek Carr and San Jose State ends No. 16 Fresno State\u2019s run toward a possible BCS bowl with a 62-52 victory. Carr passes for 519 yards and six touchdowns.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2014 \u2014 Amari Cooper ties his own school record with 224 yards receiving and catches three touchdown passes in No. 2 Alabama\u2019s 55-44 comeback victory over No. 15 Auburn in the highest-scoring Iron Bowl.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1890 \u2014 Navy beats Army 24-0 in the first matchup of this historic series. 1934 \u2014 The Detroit Lions play their first Thanksgiving Day home game and lose to the Chicago Bears 19-16. 1987 \u2014 The New Orleans Saints hold off the Pittsburgh Steelers 20-16 to assure their first winning season in their 20-year history. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-16316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16316"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=16316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}